skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Facebook have any plans do away with the iframe while fixing the issue? I'm trying to figure away out but it just seems like there's no way at the moment.
Your last line "I appreciate you reaching out, but I don't think this is for me." would have been enough. I can assure that the HR did not even read through the whole thing. Not to say that you did not have valid points but you were barking up the wrong tree.
Not when the dealership is closed though...that's the point of just looking online when they are closed on Sunday.
Substitute "Linux on the desktop" for windowsphone in your argument and this is something we techies have been arguing forever. I would be fascinated if you could explain how the position of today's windowsphone is in any way different from the position of desktop Linux for the past 12 years.
I think there is a special level of hell for people who use nested views across linked servers hundreds of miles apart and demand that the DBA team give them sub-second response times despite limitations put upon them by things like the speed of light.
Hi Patrick,

Great work but I do have questions about the security implications. I'd love to have a chat if you have some time. I'm trying to do something similar (button popups and involves money) but we're non-competing.
Good idea. Perhaps the video + a screenshot, although with the screenshot some users may not realize that the deck is built with jQuery for the navigation (slides to each deck).
I guess that's nice, but I can't look past the gross kerning of the new logo.
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> If you named your tables something like "posts" then I _guarantee_ that if you grepped your entire repository for "posts"

You shouldn't have to do that in a well-factored appliation, because you're using stored procedures instead of inline SQL.
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If the universe is a (deterministic?) simulation, would it matter to us if it were actually computed?

And if no, does anyone (or thing) need to come up with the rules for the simulation for us to experience it?
Fastest robot cube solver. The time is slightly better (5.27s vs 5.66s) than the world champion human solver but taking into account that it sometimes fails (due to hardware, which is the fail shown, don't know if the sw fails, too) the average solve time may be larger.
Has anyone had success using Dwolla? I love what they are doing and I tried to get behind them, but adoption rate is nil. If the sign up process was less of a pain I would feel better getting clients on board. It seems like they are just winning tiny battles like this just to stay in the press.
Office 2013 is out in beta form (MS calls it a "preview"), and has been for some time now.
The address bar is apparently caused by the delicious addon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799903
Office has been in beta for months now... you can go to http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview to try it out
I'd guess if you start in safe-mode those problems would disappear.

If so, you can hunt down whether it's an extension (likely), plugin, or some config setting that's causing issues.

e: Ok, so it's the delicious addon. Surprised that no one caught that in the 12 weeks of aurora/beta builds.
Thanks - sounds like pretty good reasons to switch.
For now, I will rather have your about page (http://www.varely.com/about) as your landing page. The current homepage does not tell me anything about what it does. I had to go to about page.
only the famous get mocked.
Are you looking to learn the ops side or just want to play with Hadoop to learn how it works and how to use create jobs?

If you want to learn the "ops" side, EC2 is great for building clusters, tearing them down, testing different configurations, etc.

If you just want to learn how to start using Hadoop, writing jobs - don't even bother setting up a cluster. You can use it directly with Eclipse to run a single-node setup on your machine. Way less complexity and much easier to start learning with.
Checking out the source code, this isn't going to work in IE8 and earlier without some small tweaks. IE didn't support `document.getElementsByClassName(string)` until IE9. It would be a small rewrite to make it work with IDs instead of classes (or you could use a shim).

[EDIT]: . . . But I like the idea. Might even use it next time I'm working with GA.
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I think a lot of people have some longing or desire to be an asshole, or rather to get away with being an asshole. I suspect it is some show of their position in the social order (i.e. I am so important I can treat people with contempt and it doesn't matter). I think the organizational harm done by most assholes offsets any benefit from their other contributions, by a large factor.
That UI is exactly why I'm switching to WP8 the second they're available.
I would be more convinced if he wrote why is it important for him to include a prefix. What's the value in it?
So you're recommending writing a stored procedure for this?

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tblposts
I think the Smalltalk problem is that it is too different. You cannot integrate its features one by one into your workflow, but you basically have to change everything. Porting the features one by one takes a long time and sometimes the benefit seems to be low, because it only provides synergistic effects together with other features.

Another example is Plan9. Some of its innovations were ported (/proc, utf8, ...), but some things probably never will (everything is a file).
For what it's worth, I think the comment you linked is far more fair and balanced criticism. If all of the statements I was hearing from Mozilla people sounded like that, I would have no beef.
Definitely not looking to learn the ops side--wanting hands on with Hadoop. Is working with Hadoop just an Eclipse plugin then, like with Python? Can I run it outside of Eclipse (I tend to stick to vim or geany for coding)?
I read it and re-read it, and I still don't understand what it does or what advantages it has over... whatever it's supposed to have an advantage over.
It could essentially be used as a very cheap vps. Maybe for running a bnc, personal website, etc.
I used to feel exactly what you say. In 2006, when I first encountered the cell processor inside the PS3, my eyes popped. I found it extremely challenging to write useful software. The asymmetric architecture was a big culprit. I briefly looked into the dev environments offered by the likes of Rapid Mind but gave up. This didn't feel like general purpose computing.

Back in 06, I remember seeing fear in the eyes of some hardware and software engineers. In the next year, we were supposed to have 100 cores in our plain old desktops. How the heck are we going to program them? I found the situation a bit irrational. Every talk started with the death of Moore's Law because we couldn't shrink dies any further. More cores was posited as the only solution. Except, no one could code them for general purpose apps like Word, Excel, etc. In retrospect, I wonder why I don't have 100 cores in my desktop in 2012. I suspect because they aren't useful for average joe user.

P.S. Forgive my directionless rambling. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on this subject anymore.
Thing is, the user puts those icons there, not Microsoft. It comes with a few clearly labeled icons, and when you install an app you choose to put its live tile on the start screen if you wish. With that in mind, it should be fairly obvious to the user which tile does what.
Microsoft had already announced previously that the SDK will be out at WP8 launch, there will be 100K+ WP7 apps available in the store at launch. The API and dev tools went through a huge shift from Win CE as the kernel in WP7 to the NT kernel in WP8. It makes more sense to launch when it's ready instead of rushing it out to meet a deadline.

So the "two weeks away, still no SDK" is just trolling for page hits, and unfortunately getting them.
Once we've invaded, then we can also say, "Well, they would have been a threat had we not invaded," if we don't find anything! It's fool-proof!
I imagine this person sitting down in from of a mirror and reading this out loud while typing. Naked. This person is obviously pretty full of himself.
Would love to see some examples of the query output here alongside the example queries.
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I like Ian Banks take on this from his book "The Algebraist".

“Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.”
This was neither a good response to a recruiter nor a good blog posting.
I've wanted to do something like this for a while now (I was going to call it "sub rosa linux"). Little linux machines that would try to stay connected to any network they could attach to and be as undetectable as possible. While I like the idea from a geekery point of view, I'm not sure what the real, legal uses would be.
You guys read the whole thing? Awesome, I wish I had time for something like that. WE just sit here and work.
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From an ergonomics standpoint, having your hands and butt at the exact same level has always been bad for your body. On competitive racing bikes this made some sense where one was trying to reduce the last bit of drag, but in all other cycling contexts it would make more sense not to be doing this. Here we see the same layout, this time apparently only to preserve artistic symmetry of the frame design since this bike without gears is certainly not suitable for competitive racing.
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I was torn between doing that or just leading with the content to peak interest and then having them inquire more about the concept. Thanks for the help!
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Phones need a much more limited set of apps than a desktop or laptop. Many(not all) people just use the phone functions plus Facebook, Maps, Twitter and a couple of other apps and other use cases are covered by web apps. Multiple studies have shown that most people use very few apps.

While with the PCs, if you don't have some applications(like say AAA games, Office, Autocad etc.), it cuts away more of the potential audience than on a phone.
Maybe useful to host a VPN in Austria for free ?
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This has been a serious limitation for me.
I miss ruby :)
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Negative people think negatively.

This is nothing new.
As many have commented here, the poor recruiter most probably just didn't understand/read it and quickly hit delete.

For people who have worked on video coding and video content analysis, the paragraph that starts with "For example, for me, video distribution is a solved problem." is hilarious! Video codec landscape is a mess; free codecs still are a problem, wireless video distribution is spotty, etc. And, we still don't have robust automatic methods to label videos for a variety of domains and have to rely on user provided tags, a la YouTube.

His point about licensing being a big problem is spot on, though.
The sort of simulation they're talking about here doesn't justify solipsism. Even if it were true, everybody you meet would be just as real as you are.
Maybe one small thing you could do is use it as a teaching tool for kids. Let them load up some sort of web service/site on it (that they helped create) and allow them to see it working locally. Then you would put it in a box and ship it half-way around the world, open the browser, and bam! I think that would be pretty cool and worth the shipping costs.
Well I think the fact that a big company is behind the product that would make a difference vs. Linux on desktop case. As a matter of fact, Linux on the desktop had gained much more popularity when a company (Canonical) focused on that niche market.
There are a few more technical details at

http://productsecurityblog.emc.com/2012/10/split-value-crypt...

The basic system decribed doesn't appear use hashes, just xor operations. Of course, it may layer this system on top of other security measures like salted hashes and so forth.

As described above, two servers are used (Red and Blue). Given a password p, the Red server stores a random number R, while Blue stores (p xor R).

To verify whether a given password s is correct, a client first generates another random number r. It sends r to Red, and (s xor r) to Blue.

Red computes (r xor R), while Blue computes (p xor R) xor (s xor r), and the results are compared. The results are identical if and only if p == s, ie. when the passwords match.

Neither the query operations nor the data stored reveal the password to either Red or Blue in isolation; data in both servers must be combined to recover a password. The assumption is that this reduces the risk by forcing an attacker to hack both servers rather than just one.

To further mitigate attacks, the entries in both Red and Blue are periodically xor'ed with another random sequence R_t.

In other words, the entry for a user in Red changes over time as

R

(R xor R_1)

(R xor R_1 xor R_2)

...

while Blue stores

(p xor R)

(p xor R xor R_1)

(p xor R xor R_1 xor R_2)

and so on

Now the attacker must obtain both databases within the same window to recover the password.
If this is how you reject an interview I'd hate to see how you reject an offer.
I use this all the time, except I don't like some of the syntaxes that it generates. I tend to avoid

EXPR if COND
EXPR unless COND

type of code, because the order of execution isn't very clear.
And decision on the part of a single entity can ruin a lot of people's lives, because we are so dependent on it. (Example: Twitter API rules, sparking the App.net too-soon-to-be-called-a-revolution).

A too-soon-to-be-called-a-revolution that trades one monolithic ruler for another.
Sometimes people throw out hundreds of years of engineering and are lauded as geniuses.

I don't think this is going to be one of those times.
Very cool if true, but didn't they recently announce they're stopping new development on TB? And that bug was opened in 2010 and isn't assigned to anyone.
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Interesting! I wonder if twitter looks to capture some of YouTube's fame via default uploads. iPhone/twitter integration is pretty solid in iOS6--makes me think this could be a play against YT.
Because desktop Linux has never had millions of dollars available to persuade companies to develop for their platform. Has Canonical ever offered to pay Adobe a ton of money to develop the Creative Suite for Linux? I suspect not.

I don't think that the two are in any way comparable. Linux has never had huge resources, marketing and dedicated developer outreach.
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While the increasing centralization is indeed worrying, I think this should not be conflated with the contrast big company vs. small startup.

Most startups also seem to be building centralized walled garden solutions, just on a smaller scale than Google.
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So the Iran nuclear threat is a 'cry wolf' for 33 years.

Two side notes:

- The Iran has a light water reactor that is not suited for breeding a bomb. You need a Russian type graphite moderated reactor, or even better a cold heavy water reactor for this.

- Enrichment is a requirement of this reactor type, but enrichment is the slowest and most expensive way for producing the bomb. It would be stupid to use centrifuges for enrichment, if you can produce heavy water much cheaper to breed a bomb.
Can someone explain the point of having a freely rotating rear wheel? It makes no sense to me. I can see myself constantly worrying I'll turn too much and burn my inner calf on the tire.
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"An illiterate child from a small town in India falls asleep on a train and ends up lost in Calcutta, unable to find his way back home. Twenty-five years later, while living with his adoptive family in Australia, he locates his lost hometown using memories and Google Earth. (David Kushner, Vanity Fair)"
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/india-orphan-googl...
If you spent less time sniping in comments, you'd have more time to read fresh content ;-)
Not to mention that the biggest design problem with current bikes is that they are simultaneously fairly expensive (multiple hundreds of dollars, except for the lowest of the low end) and extremely easy to steal.

If someone could make a reasonably reliable bike that's so cheap you wouldn't care if it got stolen, or an expensive bike that was extremely hard to steal, that would be a design improvement of the first magnitude.
This. You can't even safely short a stock that you're certain will crater sooner or later, you also have to know when, and how high it could go first. You're betting you know just how irrational the market is.
"the lattice spacing imposes some additional features on the spectrum. The most striking feature... the cosmic rays would travel preferentially along the axes of the lattice, so we wouldn't see them equally in all directions. "

That assumes an awful lot about a simulation which by definition is not even in this universe. Maybe they would detect a simulation which has those features, but the assumption that it would work like that, because that's how we'd do it here and now in this 3-d space is I think a very tenuous one.
I personally read about 85% of it. It was interesting
I agree. Smells fishy.
MusicBrainz would be really happy to help try and provide the information you want. You should open a ticket at our bug tracker and we'll see what can be done. I might be biased, but I don't think you'll find cleaner metadata information on the interwebs :)
Sadly, there was one mission casualty as a result of the "deconstructed" engine:

"Unfortunately, the engine malfunction placed the Falcon 9 upper stage in a slightly different approach to the International Space Station. That new approach caused the stage to violate a set of conditions known as a "safety gate"; there was no way the satellite could ascend to its intended 350km x 750km orbit without crossing the ISS orbit, and no time to check to make sure that no collision would occur. The second stage's flight control software automatically cancelled its second burn, leaving the satellite in a much lower (203km x 323km) orbit than intended. Engineers from Orbcomm and Sierra Nevada Corporation, the manufacturer, are deciding what can be done, and both SpaceX and Orbcomm are being noticeably cagey about their press releases."[1]

That said, it's impressive that they were able to make the proper adjustments and still complete the main objective. I wonder if they can bring the satellite back down, or if the fuels[2] used in the satellite prevent its return.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/spacex-dragon-capsule...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine#Hazards
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I thought that part of the ad was an interesting counterpoint to the "I'm a (boring, businessman-like) PC, I'm a (cool, hip, trendy) Mac" ads.
Here's my take:

I don't think this is an alternative to another product. Instead I think it's something fairly new and interesting: they built a tool which takes your tokenized source code (presumably only in Clojure) and your git log and makes a queryable database out of it. So you could query "who changed my kill_puppies function last year" or other semi-structured things, as opposed to a combination of git blame + ack + ctags.

Like they said in the article, this would be the underpinnings of a larger system; something to manage code deployments, or an IDE, or a code review tool.
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Wait, being open and forward to strangers on the internet means I'm addicted? Well, that explains a lot...
It's basically impossible to answer no to any of those types of questions. That does not mean there true, just impossible to falsify.
> mercurial/linux environment

What? You mean Github (which hosts the Linux kernel repository) and runs git (written by Linus Torvalds) is not linux-like?
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One advantage is that you can view your repo's history as a list of new functions being added/removed/changed instead of just diffs of what lines are removed and added. You could add editor support and look at all previous versions of a specific function you're working on.

More specifically, where git mostly looks at code as a collection of files and differences in individual lines, codeq breaks it down into code as a collection of semantic units (function definitions for clojure, possibly class definitions, methods, etc. if other languages are supported). Your version control system would actually understand if a particular method had been moved from a subclass into a parent class, instead of just considering it as lines being deleted here and added elsewhere.
Obviously the recruiter and HR will never read the whole thing. In business, most people learn to skip to the end of long emails to get the call-to-action or summary, then read the whole thing if they need more background, so I don't think it's rude to write a long "thanks, but no thanks" email.

Now: Did the author waste his own time? He's the only judge of that. I personally applaud it. Sometimes the act of writing something like this out helps you clarify your own personal mission. It's like putting up a pirate flag on your building. The big companies don't care, but you do, and maybe one day you'll ship something like Macintosh.

I'm not really plugged into the video scene, so I have no idea how cogent Amos's comments are about codecs and what-not. But he does a good job of communicating his passion for independence. If even one person reads that and thinks to themselves, "Yeah! I'm that passionate about origami folding displays, I'm going to stick it out," what a glorious win that would be.
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Wow, the guy makes great points and has some serious issues.

However...

The rhetoric ruins the whole thing - at least for me.
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On Linux, Chrome has an option to use system decorations. Does it lack that option on other systems?
I'm not crying foul on what you've stated, but I'd be interested in reading some accounts of those efforts.

The one attack that I thought was against Iran was actually against Iraq: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera
Good point. I won't say awareness of such solutions is a sign of a good programmer (though there's probably at least some correlation), but it's definitely the sign of a good consultant.
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